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Before returning to school this fall, the University at Buffalo is offering undergraduates and/or high school students a unique opportunity to examine the legal profession and its ability to implement social change in a course entitled “Lawyers as Agents of ...

The New York State False Claims Act will be the subject of a special continuing legal education program on Wednesday. It marks the first time the Monroe County Bar Association has partnered with Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman’s office. “It’s ...

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Jamesville-Dewitt High School in Onondaga County placed second recently in the New York Statewide High School Mock Trial Tournament Finals — the winning school was Nyack High School, Rockland County. Teams argued the fictional case of People of the State ...

In an ongoing effort to make college costs more transparent for students, the U.S. Department of Education released new regulations Tuesday designed to ensure that career training programs at for-profit colleges meet certain performance standards — or risk losing their ...

The 2011 law school graduate employment figures released by the American Bar Association last week include new requirements designed to increase law school graduate job placement transparency. The data includes, for the first time, figures regarding the number of graduates ...

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The law firm of Harter Secrest & Emery LLP has awarded $250 scholarships to seven area high school students as part of its commitment to the School Without Walls Academy of Law and Justice. Winning students for the spring program ...

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ALBANY — New York could announce as early as this week a legislative deal to crack down on cyber bullying in schools and through social media, according to a state official closed to the private negotiations. The official told The ...

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Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley last week participated in the Accelerated Readers Awards Ceremony at the Boys & Girls Club of Rochester. “This community is full of heroes and I’m honored to be able to support the great work ...

Strong Arm Technologies Inc., made up of students from the Rochester Institute of Technology, beat out more than 120 teams from more than 25 colleges and universities across the state to capture the grand prize in the third annual New ...

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Students from Honeoye Falls-Lima High School recently celebrated the Honeoye Falls Creek watershed at the General Motors Fuel Cell Activities Center in Honeoye Falls. Through water quality testing with community partners, youth from the high school took a proactive approach ...

Syracuse University’s Western New York Alumni Association on Sunday honored Seneca Nation President Robert Odawi Porter with a distinguished alumnus award for a local graduate. Porter graduated from Syracuse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics ...

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Like a lot of young lawyers these days, Megon Walker is out of work. But what makes her stint with unemployment different than most is that the Ohio native claims her alma mater, Harvard Law School, is to blame. Life ...